Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:28:20 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.co.za> To: gshapiro@gshapiro.net (Gregory Neil Shapiro) Cc: jhay@icomtek.co.za (John Hay), ume@mahoroba.org (Hajimu UMEMOTO), gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail updated from 8.9.3 to 8.11.0 in -current Message-ID: <200008131928.e7DJSKg20282@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <14742.61852.184466.543141@horsey.gshapiro.net> from Gregory Neil Shapiro at "Aug 13, 2000 12:06:04 pm"
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> jhay> There is just an annoying message because of the anycast address: > > jhay> Aug 13 16:38:47 angel sendmail[11947]: gethostbyaddr(3ffe:2900:fffa:4::) failed: 1 > > jhay> Is that because of a configuration error or just because sendmail needs > jhay> to check for anycast addresses? > > sendmail tries to get the hostnames associated with all of it's interfaces > to populate $=w (local host names). The best fix would be to create an > entry in DNS for that address. Perhaps sendmail shouldn't bother warning > on multicast addresses. Can you see if this patch makes the error go away? > I tried your second patch, but it didn't make a difference. I'll take the easy way out for now and add a DNS entry like you and ume suggested. :-) I looked in ifconfig to see how they did the anycast detection and you basically have to open another socket into the kernel (this time an AF_INET6 one) and get the ipv6 flags and check them. Maybe too much work, except if it is going to bother too many people. :-/ John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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